A change in plans. I was probably a bit to ambitious with what my plan was for this thread originally, but I need to find a happy medium between time constraints and chronicling this, which I seem compelled to do.
The NAU team was ideal, I was wanting to play a west coast team for once, but basically the scholarship/roster situation was so dire in Flagstaff, that it made me pretty reluctant to play it. I simmed forward some more, got what looked like a promising situation at LIU-Brooklyn. But, the game kept crashing for some reason when I opened the 'gameplan' tab, but only for LIU-Brooklyn, and not for the other teams I tested, couldn't get it to work with my rudimentary attempts at fixing it.
Then, on to the next one and now I'm at UMBC, Maryland-Baltimore County, famous in modern times for being the first team to knock off a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
They are in the American East conference, coming off of a 13-18 (9-9) season that saw the end of the 5 year Justin McNeil regime.